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IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE Vor, XXIX, 1922 
Ames; second, species rare at Ames, i. e. either never seen in 
numbers or not seen at all during certain years; third, species 
doubtfully accredited to the Ames Region. 
SPECIES COMMON AT AMES BUT SUPPOSED BY SOME TO 
BE RARE 
Belted Kingfisher 
( Ceryle alcyon) 
Kingfishers are present along the creeks about Ames every 
year, not in large numbers, for the habits of the bird are such 
that usually only a single pair is found at one place. They are 
frequently not observed by students in the college bird classes. 
Barn Swallow 
( Hirundo erythrogaster) 
Every year the writer was at Ames, barn swallows were ob- 
served in numbers along Squaw creek north of the campus in 
the vicinity of the concrete bridge. Since the artificial lake has 
been constructed on the college campus, barn swallows have been 
found occasionally skimming over the surface of its waters. 
Rough-winged Swallow 
( Stelgidopteryx serripennis) 
By far the most common swallow about the college campus 
is the rough-winged swallow, which can nearly always be found 
during the late spring and summer circling about the old gravel 
pit between the campus and the North Western tracks. This 
species is usually confused with its near relative the bank swallow 
{Rip aria rip aria) which also is found at Ames. 
Cedar Waxwing 
(Bomby cilia cedrorum) 
Almost every winter some excited person would rush up to 
the writer and in interrupted speech announce that some new 
birds were on the campus or that the waxwings had come. The 
cedar waxwing is one of our common birds at Ames as the fol- 
lowing records show. Individuals seen as follows : 4, May 20, 
1917; 45 (on the college campus), February 27, 1918; 12, March 
17', 1918; 32, March 24, 1918; 8, March 31, 1918; 17, April 
7, 1918; 4, June 2, 1918; 2, May 25, 1919; 4, May 29, 1920. 
These records are only the ones taken on regular field trips. 
The bird was so common that other records were not deemed 
sufficiently Important to be put down. 
